Cuz
Subtitle: the life and times of Michael A.
By: Danielle Allen
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781631493119
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; African American juvenile delinquents; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Social conditions; African American families; Biography; African American young men
Description: "In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the American prison system, Danielle Allen seeks answers to what, for many years, felt unanswerable. Why? Why did her cousin, a precocious young man who dreamed of being a firefighter and a writer, end up dead? Why did he languish in prison? And why, at the age of fifteen, was he in an alley in South Central Los Angeles, holding a gun while trying to steal someone's car?"--Dust flap
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Release and resurrection; title: Garden party, July 2009; title: Release day, June 2006; title: The investigation, July 2009; title: Getting started, June-July 2006; title: Job, July 2006; title: Investigation, July 2009; title: School, August 2006; title: Funeral, July 27, 2009; title: Apartment, August 2006; title: Hitting bottom, November 2006; title: The end, August 2008-July 2009; title: Part II: Inferno; title: Crime and punishment; title: Where was our family? Where were the lawyers?; title: Milestones; title: Norco; title: Inferno, in Michael's words; title: Visiting 1.0; title: Visiting 2.0; title: Dizzy; title: The biggest wildfire in California history; title: Part III: Unforgiving world; title: Fire and ice; title: The single mother and the great white whale; title: First steps; title: "Sis, run!"; title: Gangbanging; title: a definition; title: How not to help your kids; title: the limit on helping your kids; title: City of angels; title: The end; title: My heart's locket; title: Coda: What's next?